Background

Mr. Andrew S. Lanza, also known as Drew works was a Venture Partner at Morgenthaler. He joined the firm in 2000 and is based at the Menlo Park, California office. Mr. Lanza became a Partner in 2001. He focuses on information technology including semiconductors, cleantech, components, and systems. Mr. Lanza is a part of venture capital team and has spent 15 years in senior operating positions in the telecommunications industry starting companies in both the components ... and the systems sectors of that industry. He served as a Senior Vice President of Marketing at MAYAN Networks, building aggregation systems for the metropolitan edge market. Prior to that, Mr. Lanza was the Founder and Vice President of Engineering at E/O Networks, where he helped to design and produce a long reach rural fiber optic telephony system. He started his optical telecommunications career in 1986 at Raynet. Mr. Lanzaï¿½s many roles at Raynet included Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of International Development. He was the Founding Chief Executive Officer at Lightwave Microsystems. Mr. Lanza is currently a Director of Brion Technologies, ZeroG, OmniPV, SiPort, Zolo Technologies, R2 Semiconductor, Autonet Mobile, Overture Networks, Ultradots Inc., and Unity Semiconductor. He also regularly attends Caspian, Wave7 Optics, and Xoomsys Board meetings. Mr. Lanza served as Director of Cortina Systems, Inc. Mr. Lanza graduated, magna cum laude, from Harvard with an M.B.A. in 1987. He holds a B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Stanford in 1979.

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